Recalling the June 15 incident in Galwan Valley “causing casualties” he said it was “a situation neither China nor India would like to see”. (AP/File)
As the border working mechanism reviewed the situation on the ground in Ladakh and the “progress made” in disengagement of troops along the Line of Actual Control, Beijing's envoy to New Delhi Friday said “the so-called ‘decoupling' of China-India economic and trade relations” will “only harm others without benefit to oneself, and it will eventually hurt oneself as well”.
Ambassador Sun Weidong, in a statement released by the Chinese embassy on its website, said the two countries “should meet each other halfway” to “overcome” the “complex situation” in ties and “turn it around as soon as possible”. He said both should be “partners rather than opponents or adversaries”.
While calling for building “mutual trust” and “need to respect and accommodate mutual core interests and major concern”, he also said both must “adhere to the principle of non-interference in each other's internal affairs”.
Maintaining that China is “neither a warlike state nor an assertive country”, Sun said “why should we fight against…
